Project Design

At the heart of GPD’s TeamPort solution is the design of projects, especially complex ones with teams working across functional, corporate or cultural boundaries.

Starting before a project launches, a feasibility study allows insight into scope, architecture, and teaming options and their trade-off with cost and duration. This level of design is well-suited to portfolio analysis and selection.

As a project begins, GPD leads a collaborative design exercise, rapidly generating project plans. A baseline plan is selected by the project team from many optimized alternatives. These plans are both accurate and feasible. The involvement of teams significantly elevates their awareness and ownership.

As the project approaches key decision gateways, GPD validates the scope, resources, risks, and assumptions which drive the selected project design from the baseline exercise.

TeamPort Project Design Services

Feasibility delivers a Preliminary Project Design including scope estimation, an initial project model, and prepares for an effective and productive design workshop later.

Baseline delivers a Project Design including a baseline project plan, coordination priorities, risks with mitigation plans, and accurate forecasts of work and coordination costs and duration. The collaborative design exercise builds awareness and consensus while exploring multiple plan alternatives.

Validation establishes readiness to execute an optimal and realistic project design and delivers a Validated Project Design ready for ongoing performance.